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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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